As Planned on March 29th
No Deal on March 29th
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I think the deal offered to and accepted by Mrs May is a terrible deal. I have also stated many times I do not think making the process of leaving so unpalatable should be the reason people stay in a 'club'. People should stay because the club offers more benefits as being a member.
Offering the UK a torturous route to exit and probably as similar but longer route to get 'sensible' free trade deal will only stoke resentment of the EU presidium from within the EU and outside the EU. Being able to leave a club (technically and practically) makes the club stronger as it forces decisions and direction that makes the club a better place so members are less inclined to leave.
I suspect the UK will be held in limbo of paying full fees and no seat at the table for many years while the 'details' of a free trade agreement coupled with appropriate fees for regulatory alignment and access are thrashed out.Original Post Deleted
I too suspect this is what will happen, specially with the EU focused on sorting out issues within and with the US.I suspect the UK will be held in limbo of paying full fees and no seat at the table for many years while the 'details' of a free trade agreement coupled with appropriate fees for regulatory alignment and access are thrashed out.
EU support is at a 35-year high. The way the EU has been conducting negotiations has high support from nation states and their constituents. People can't criticize the EU negotiators if the UK can't even be firm on what they want. Can you tell us what they want? I can't even after reading hundreds of posts and articles on Brexit. Even DeletedUser keeps changing his mind all the time. One time he told us he supports May's plan if it prevents No Deal. Then he tells us No Deal is better than May's deal. Once he told us that revoking article 50 would be terrible for democracy. Now he talks of elections.
And then there's you who thinks every political problem has a technical solution and hence you see the EU as a technical construct. That view is not only dangerous, but factually incorrect. It's the political construct of the EU that brought about peace in Ireland and not the free flow of goods. Hence one cannot just replace a political solution with a technical one.
UK politics are in shambles, parliament has chosen to extend negotiation, the EU may return the favour, but Brexiteers are now vowing to use passive aggressive tactics to disrupt EU decision making. Yet you come on here telling us the EU is inflexible.